Anna to the Infinite Power
Anna to the Infinite Power is a 1982 sciencefiction thriller film about a young teenager who learns that she was the product of a cloning experiment. The film was based on the novel of the same name by Mildred Ames. It was produced by Ned Kandell Enterprises and Film Gallery, previously responsible for the American syndicated childrens series Big Blue Marble, and many alumni from that program worked on the film. The film was never released theatrically, but premiered on the paycable service HBO and later appeared on home video. The films signature score Annas Reverie was composed by Paul Baillargeon, who wrote the music for the film and has a cameo in which he plays the music teacher of Annas brother Rowan.
As Anna investigates, she learns about a woman named Anna Zimmerman, who has been dead foryears, and that she herself was part of a cloning experiment by Zimmerman who would grow into a duplicate of Zimmerman herself, right down to the traits Anna shares with her. It also turns out that Annas mother volunteered for the cloning project but the father wanted nothing to do with it. We also learn, through Annas dreams, of Zimmermans past growing up during World War II as a Jew in Nazicontrolled Germany, where she, like the present Anna, was a pianist and child prodigy who would play a part in the Nazis plans for the genetic engineering of humans.But, just as the current Anna is beginning to act normal and learn more about her backgroundthanks in part to her brother Rowan and to secret assistance from Michaelawe also learn of six other Annas, this after her mother told her that they the people involved with the cloning project wanted to reevaluate Anna for a few days at a facility at Albacore Island. While there, Anna becomes suspicious when the phone in her room is blocked. Also, as she snoops around she notices the experiments they are performing. When Rowan has not heard from Anna, he sneaks into the facility to see his sister. Anna and Rowan confront Dr. Henry Jelliff, the person who kept Zimmermans genetic cloning experiments alive at Albacore Island, who tells her that she is now a normal person and suggests that she should change her name as a way to start a new life. But, after Anna and her brother were free to go, Jelliff reveals to Michaela, whom he suspected was not following her assignments, that he is secretly grooming yet another Anna to grow up to become the future Zimmerman they plan to kill the remaining five Annas, including Hart and her family, shortly. ........
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